Cairo, July 23 (Jiji Press)--Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese Red Army member on an international wanted list as a perpetrator of a deadly shooting attack on an Israeli international airport in 1972, died in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, a Palestinian group said Thursday. He was 78.
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BEIRUT: Kozo Okamoto, who carried out a deadly attack on an Israeli airport on behalf of the Popular Front for the...
Kozo Okamoto was part of a three-man team from the Japanese Red Army group that killed 26 people on May 30, 1972.
The leftist was involved in the deadly 1972 attack on Lod Airport in Israel, in which 26 people died
Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese militant involved in a deadly attack on Tel Aviv’s airport over 50 years ago, has died in Beirut at 78.
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